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by mwexler 11y ago
Killed from it's original vision; the remaining is a shadow of what it was. Big shadow, admittedly. But fair point, my hyperbole may have gotten out of control.
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by mwexler 11y ago
All the comments on "don't rely on 1 customer" are correct, of course, but I'm more interested in how, as far back as the 80s, we all believed in the magic of having something show us the best price for an item. Now, su
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by mwexler 11y ago
It's very common among app writers, who struggle to keep up with iOS changes every year which break their app. It's also common that Apple will not support older devices with iOS upgrades, and if the app you need no longer suppo
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Netflix Vows to Shut Down Proxy Users Who Bypass Country Restrictions(variety.com)
4 points by mwexler 11y ago|0 comments
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by mwexler 11y ago
Stan ( http://mc-stan.org/ ) is impressive, but isn't this BLOG language easier to read and perhaps easier for novices to create models in? The marriage of the power of Stan with the ease and speed of implementation of
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by mwexler 11y ago
Hope does spring eternal.
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ATT Wireless raising rates on legacy “Unlimited” plans(att.com)
1 points by mwexler 11y ago|0 comments
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by mwexler 11y ago
Thank goodness, another separate wallet to keep track of with non-linked data, another vector for potential theft, and no clear reward for me. Starbucks app has a rewards play, Taco Bell app has customization... but without some compelling
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by mwexler 11y ago
Is the problem more that this is a feature, not a product? That is, integrated with expense report systems, tax management, any other business tools, this makes sense. But as a standalone, it feels like an island. This was similar to Trip
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by mwexler 11y ago
Second the above. The team at MS have done incredible work around the pragmatics of being able to trust the findings of the online experiment and possible areas of confounds. Anything Kohavi touches is worth paying attention to.
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by mwexler 11y ago
Note that this is one chapter of a good intro "online book" to neural nets. http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/index.html is a good place to start.
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by mwexler 11y ago
Repost ( https://hn.algolia.com/?query=aerosolve&sort=byPopularity&pr... ) but it's an interesting library, so worth looking at if you missed it the first few times it was posted.
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by mwexler 11y ago
I suspect I am the only one who immediately starts mentally humming this Genesis chestnut every time I read the "datalake" phrase. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weRCHo36MeM Now back to your regular programming.
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by mwexler 11y ago
Not sure that R is _shunned_ in big data, as much as there are better solutions once you get to a certain level of big.
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by mwexler 11y ago
From their Github ( https://github.com/garris/TremulaJS ): Picture Streams + Momentum Engine + Bézier Paths + Cross-Browser + Cross-Device TremulaJS is a client-side javascript UI component providing Bézier-based content
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by mwexler 11y ago
Jeremiah ( http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend... ) has an interesting rise in the 70s, but then disappears in the 80s (like so many things) but comes on strong again by the 2000s. The double hu
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by mwexler 11y ago
There seem to be 2 main ways people use laptops in my unscientific "asking of my friends" survey: Plugged in for long periods, or unplugged for long periods. It seems like the vendors should have solved for both of those. From t
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by mwexler 11y ago
Ah, so I can only use 60% of my battery before I have to find a plug? Bummer.
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by mwexler 12y ago
Apache v2 license, in case anyone was wondering
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by mwexler 12y ago
Of course, another aspect of encyclopedias is that they organize a body of information; while the main page may force a structure of some kind, talk pages tend to go all over the place. But agreed that they add much needed facts and POVs b
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by mwexler 12y ago
Can't help but to note this other story popping up at the same time: Yahoo! in talks to buy Foursquare... http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/15/sources-yahoo-in-talks-to-b...
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by mwexler 12y ago
For those wondering: Stingray appears to be "a once-secret cellphone surveillance device distributed to federal, state and local law enforcement," taken from the first line in the article. So, not the car or bicycle, as I was sec
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by mwexler 12y ago
Oy. And yet, I couldn't stop myself from upvoting this comment. You made this day a touch better.
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by mwexler 12y ago
... Or the guy was just like so many average humans and assumed that the machine was doing something more than randomly picking cards to hold. If the machine said it was auto-picking the worst cards, we'd all be mad. If the machine s
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by mwexler 12y ago
WSJ also has an article about this phenomenon with some more details around how each chain approaches the issue; worth a read if you travel... http://www.wsj.com/articles/pay-for-wi-fi-only-at-a-luxury-h... including
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Hitachi to Buy Pentaho Open Source BI Solution(bloomberg.com)
2 points by mwexler 12y ago|0 comments
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by mwexler 12y ago
I loved this book. Don't forget the "More" sequel ( http://www.atariarchives.org/morebasicgames/ ) and the Big Computer Games ( http://www.atariarchives.org/bigcomputergames/ ) books a
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by mwexler 12y ago
I think some of the comments re: browser agent are missing the point. I think the poster was not focused on whether it can identify the system or browser type, but instead as a technique to provide a potentially unique (or somewhat unique)
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by mwexler 12y ago
The google paper the OP is summarizing is much, much better than the summary. http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43146.html leading to http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co.
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by mwexler 12y ago
In case folks were wondering, from their wiki: "Dolphin is an open-source Nintendo GameCube, Wii, and Triforce emulator for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X (Intel-based)."

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